Crank It Up: Listener Favorites with Noelle B.

"Crank It Up" is a new feature on Summit Now spotlighting five favorite songs as chosen by a different Summit listener or member. Get ready to crank it up!

Guest Contributor: Noelle B.

1. "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen This song brings back memories of not only hearing it on the radio when I was a kid, but I think the Ghoul or Big Chuck used to play this on their late-night shows.
   
2. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" by Frank Zappa My older sisters used to have Zappa albums, and I always thought this song was so funny. (Don't go where the huskies go...)
   
3. "Coming to Take Me Away" by Napolean XIV An epic song! I loved it as a kid; as a nurse, we sang this during "appropriate" moments. I recorded this on my cell phone the last time The Summit FM played it so that I can use it as a ringtone.
   
4. "Happy Boy" by the Beat Farmers I love the singer's baritone voice, and it really is a happy song. A coworker saw the Beat Farmers play on a cruise ship last year in Cabo and said they were really good! I think the kazoo and the gargling really do it for me on that song! (Hubba, hubba...)
   
5. "Peaches" by the Presidents of the United States When this song was released in 1996, we were moving to Texas, and on that God-awful long drive, I heard this song play like a million times. So, we were moving to the country and actually did eat a lot of peaches, but this song will always bring back memories of the trip. I just bought the CD at The Exchange recently, and I love that the young folks working there never give me the side eye when I ask them to retrieve older music from the locked case.  Some of them will ask me to give them some history of music they've never heard before!